[Dr. Sivana]

if you’re going to work on routers or security appliances, web servers, etc - you’ll likely be working on some manner of Unix system as either your development environment or the server.

Absolutely. But the article was pushing "Linux for the rest of us." I never, ever want to be thought of as anti-Linux, anti-Windows or anti-Mac. It just isn't for everybody. You had a PDP-11 running UNIX... lucky. I had to settle for a PDP-8M running ETOS.

[NVDave]

PDP-11/60. With the writeable control store installed. Micro-code a-go-go. ;-)

Completely agree — most end users need Unix like they need a socially communicable disease.

[NVDave]

BTW - while I never hacked seriously on PDP-8’s, I did get to use RTE-IV on a HP-2100S, which had an architecture like a PDP-8 with another four bits shoved on the word. Two accumulators, goofy jump instruction setup, magnetic core main store, lots of incandescent lights on the front panel. Pretty cool machine, actually. A forerunner to the HP-1000 series of 16-bit mini’s in the 80’s. Built like brick outhouses, just like the ‘8s.

The HP-3000’s were a wholly different beast - never worked on them.